Spoiled By The CEO: Why The Wife Is Kinda Sweet? novel Chapter 299

He tilted his head. “What’s up?”

Max walked over, chortling. “Who are you calling? Running out like that?”

Charlie didn’t answer. He looked him in the eyes with a deep abyssal gaze without speaking.

Max wasn’t afraid of anything, much less Charlie’s looks.

He leant over and snickered, “I just heard a couple of phrases. Something about a woman. Tsk tsk tsk, don’t think I can’t tell, bro. You knew that Miss Kawn from before didn’t you? What? Old flame?”

Charlie’s gaze cooled by a few more degrees.

Max shook his head and tutted.

“Fine, don’t tell me. But as your bro, I need to remind you that that Miss Kawn seemed to have recently given birth. Looks like she’s taken. Careful she doesn’t play you for a fool.”

Charlie smirked.

A bit of mockery seemed to enter his eyes.

“I know.”

“What?”

“I said I know.”

Max widened his eyes at him like he’d just seen a ghost.

“You know and you still like her?”

Charlie suddenly frowned.

“Who says I like her?”

Max leered.

“Come on! Don’t think I couldn’t tell. Your eyes were on her all the time when you were eating and you didn’t look away once. You think all of us onlookers are blind?”

“…”

Charlie stayed silent and didn’t speak.

As Max was about to try to nudge him again, he suddenly opened his mouth. “Yeah, I was looking at her, but not because I like her.”

Max blinked. “Then why?”

“Because I’m the father.”

“…”

Charlie might as well have brought the house down on top of Max with that simple sentence.

After a while, he snapped back to reality and seemed to understand something.

He raised his head and looked at disbelief towards the man opposite him. Charlie remained perfectly calm, as if he hadn’t said those words himself.

Even scarier, his gaze towards Max showed a bit of threat.

Max hurriedly shut up and took an expression that said “I don’t know nothing and I ain’t seen nothing, back up”.

He paused, then said, “Well… Natalia and gang are having a lobby fight, are you coming?”

Charlie didn’t play games and didn’t know what he was talking about, asking, “What lobby fight?”

“Oh, it’s a game that’s really popular right now. If you’re coming, we’ll save you a spot.”

Charlie thought about it and didn’t refuse this time.

“Fine. I’ll come.”

So the two walked back in.

Charlie had the game downloaded soon enough. To match up their numbers, Wanda and Archie had been dragged in too. With the numbers set, they started matching teams.

Because Charlie and Wanda hadn’t played before, they were split up to be fair.

The final matchups were – Archie, Natalia, Louis, Victoria and Wanda on one team.

As for the other side, Charlie, Laura, Stephen and Max were on the other team.

With their preparations ready, the match began.

The moment it began, Max went and got himself oneshot by Victoria.

Taking first blood, Victoria started cackling. Max’s expression wasn’t pretty, but he had his reputation to consider, so he just grunted, “It’s fine. I’m a gentleman and I won’t go all out against a lady.”

Natalia bit her lip and grinned without saying anything.

Max revived. The moment he revived, he bragged, “Just wait, Miss Kawn, I’ll have my revenge.”

And then right after that Archie’s assassin emerged from the bush and killed him.

Max sat there, face turning purple. He was not okay.

Victoria and Wanda started snickering around him. He sat there, looked at his body on the ground onscreen, and said nothing for a while.

Then he frowned, shook his phone, and muttered, “Eh? What’s with the internet? Natalia, this place you booked has horrible wifi! I’m offline – oh, Archie, you didn’t kill me, right? You shouldn’t take advantage of people like this. My net’s down.”

Natalia couldn’t hold it in. “Oh, shut up!”

Max said resentfully, “I didn’t mean to choke like that, Natalia, it’s really just my internet.”

Laura couldn’t keep from chiming in and smirked, “Please. If you’re feeding just admit you’re feeding. Don’t blame the internet. The internet’s innocent, you know.”

Seeing her poke holes like that, Max was getting sulky.

After a while, he mumbled, “But the network’s bad. I was the number one archer on the national server back in the day.”

Then another scream rang out and he’d died again.

Wanda had chipped him to death while playing support.

This time, he didn’t even have an excuse. He just stared dully at the screen.

Wanda didn’t really know what was going on and felt a bit embarrassed, so she looked at him and awkwardly murmured, “I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to kill you.”

“…”

If you didn’t mean it and still killed me, what if you actually meant it?

Didn’t this actually hurt more?

The next second, Natalia had squirreled out of the bush to cut off Stephen, but he’d run away too quickly. To guard him, Charlie sacrificed himself.

Natalia chuckled, “Sorry about that, Master Peck.”

Charlie remarked, “It’s fine. After all, with a certain someone here, there’s no way we can win.”

Max almost spat blood at that.

“Hey, hey, hey, that’s going too far. You’re all ganging up on me now, are you?”

Charlie shot him a look. “Who else is there to gang up on now that you’re feeding like this?”

“Oi! That’s going to far. Looks like I’ll really have to try hard now and show you what I’m made of.”

Archie was still playing his assassin to the side. “Okay, fine. If you lose, go out and streak around the place three times.”

Natalia snickered. “That’s okay with me.”

At that moment, Laura suddenly yelped, “Ahh-! Cover me!”

But it was too late. With a screech, her hero fell at the hands of Archie.

Laura sighed and shook her head.

The following few times, she either got killed by Archie or Natalia. In fact, Natalia’s warrior killed her twice.

Eyes reddening, Laura stared at the screen and snarled, “All right, looks like you want me to ult you, then!”

Louis smiled. “It’s just a game, Miss Davies. No need to take it that seriously.”

He said that, but he didn’t let up himself and charged all the way to their objective.